CFP: De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization (10/1/06; collection)

*De/Construction of Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Age of Globalization*

The age of globalization has witnessed a redefinition of ethnicity aswell as the (re)emergence of nationhood, while at the same timewitnessing the deconstruction of both. Bi-, multi- and poly-culturalsocieties more than ever have to confront issues generated from suchefforts, which aim at shaping and reshaping identities. While currentpolitical developments exacerbate such phenomena, pacts of forgettingand other silent alliances that had been established during the Cold Waras well as post- and neo-colonial paradigms are now being interrogatedand challenged.

Contributions are invited for a volume focusing on these issues to bepublished by MESEA, following a symposium organized in September 2005 inIstanbul. The articles should be 5000 to 7000 words in length and followthe MLA style of documentation. Please send abstracts of 100-200 wordsby 1 October 2006. Complete essays are due 31 January 2007.